Keys for Chargers defense vs. Jets Week 16

Keys for Chargers defense vs. Jets Week 16

Here are two keys for the Chargers’ defense against the New York Jets Week 16 at MetLife Stadium.

No. 1. Chargers LB Jatavis Brown must be ready to ball

Chargers linebacker Jatavis Brown was listed earlier this week on the injury report with an abdomen strain but is expected to play against the Jets Sunday.

Brown must be ready for a heavy workload against New York with starting middle linebacker Denzel Perryman out with a hamstring injury of his own.

Fortunately for Los Angeles and Brown, this is a position that the linebacker has been in a few times over the past two seasons with Perryman having missed all but six games in 2017, and four games in 2016 due to injury, respectively.